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Picturing the Bomb: Photographs from the Secret World of the Manhattan Project

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"Picturing the Bomb" by Rachel Fermi (granddaughter of Nobel Laureate and brilliant Physicist, Enrico Fermi) and Esther Samra is a completely fascinating and often haunting photographical documentary which presents the first images of The Manhattan Project. Many of the pictures are gathered from private collections of people who were actually participating in the secrecy. The book also contains never-before-published, de-classified military images. And, as a perfect complement to the photos, the accompanying text is equally compelling. For those who know the horror of the genie, this is a must for your collection.

This book is a little pricey, but the photographs inside this coffee-table book are incredible. Not the run of the mill technical photos, some of these came from private collections, showing a slice of life in and around these plants.

It's actually kind of fun to take the book out and see how the landscape has changed over the years.

PS- If you are solely looking for technical photos of devices assembly and production areas, you will be disappointed. Get Chuck Hansen's book instead.

An amazing collection of photos which I highly recommend for anyone with even a passing interest in the incredible Manhattan Project. It has the expected pictures of airplanes, bombs, buildings, and machines, but also has more human photographs of the people involved and their families.

This book does not just chronichle the making of the Atomic bomb, but it tells the story of the people who made it possible.

This book, shown to me by a LLL scientist, before I purchased, gave me such a insight, well beyond the Alamo museums, that enriches my understanding of the era, and the impact of the bomb.
Extraordinary book. Everyone should get a chance to see it.
Fermi's daughters collection of photographs is rare and revealing of moments in that period. To see pictures like this of the work that changed the political landscape of the planet is amazing.

OMG! It'sk amazing to me that two of the reviewers here just don't get it. The reason this book was put together was not to show the gore along with many interesting pictures of atomic bombs blasting. Did they not bother to actually read what the book was about? I think if I gave these two people a beautiful, just caught salmon, and asked them how they liked it, they'd say, "It tasted OK, but it made an absolutely terrible hammer."

A nice view of the human side of the Los Alamos Project: It was more than just building a bomb, you know.

While this book does have pictures of the Manhattan Project, about only 1% of them are of actual nuclear-related stuff. Mostly it's pictures of people growing up on the Los Alamos project. I found only a few pictures of bombs exploding. The rest of the pictures are boring! This book is NOT worth buying!!!!!!

this book is the worst book i have ever seen in my entire life.